Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Resignation.

What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers

May be heaven's distant lamps.

Resignation.

There is no death! What seems so is transition;

This life of mortal breath

Is but a suburb of the life elysian,

Whose portal we call Death.

Resignation.

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution,